Questions on ABR

[Connessione]

I have following queries on ABR.

 

1. Does Ant media support per stream ABR settings or just server wide global settings?  as per what i see in configuration page it is global (set at application level).

2. Does Ant media support ABR or both Live and VOD streaming?  if yes is the VOD part documented somewhere?

3.  What  protocols can take advantage of ABR in Ant media server ?

[Mohit]

On 8/17/2022 at 5:59 AM, Connessione said:

I have following queries on ABR.

 

1. Does Ant media support per stream ABR settings or just server wide global settings?  as per what i see in configuration page it is global (set at application level).

2. Does Ant media support ABR or both Live and VOD streaming?  if yes is the VOD part documented somewhere?

3.  What  protocols can take advantage of ABR in Ant media server ?

Hi,

How are you?

1. Yes, you are right. The ABR settings are general settings for the said application. e.g., ABR settings applied in the LiveApp application will be applicable to all the streams running under LiveApp
2. You can enabled ABR for the VODs to play them as HLS with help of user defined scripts and shown here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72606811/how-to-transcode-the-uploaded-vod-files-and-play-them-as-hls-in-ant-media-server
3. For H.264 protocol we have MP4 recording and for VP8 codec there's WebM.

 

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Best Regards,

Mohit Dubey 

[Connessione]

On 8/22/2022 at 2:52 PM, Mohit said:

Hi,

How are you?

1. Yes, you are right. The ABR settings are general settings for the said application. e.g., ABR settings applied in the LiveApp application will be applicable to all the streams running under LiveApp
2. You can enabled ABR for the VODs to play them as HLS with help of user defined scripts and shown here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72606811/how-to-transcode-the-uploaded-vod-files-and-play-them-as-hls-in-ant-media-server
3. For H.264 protocol we have MP4 recording and for VP8 codec there's WebM.

 

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Best Regards,

Mohit Dubey 

Thank you for the info Mohit. And I am fine thanks for asking...I hope you are doing good too 😀.  So all fine except for the last question. Which protocols can take advantage of abr in ant media. I mean can WebRTC use abr? can hls use abr ? What other playback protocols in ant media can use ABR ?

[Yash]

Hi @Connessione

In Ant Media Server, all available output protocols (WebRTC, HLS & DASH) can take advantage of ABR.

Regards,
Yash

[Connessione]

Thanks 👌